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Old Beam Pump & Winding Engine, Glyn Pits is a post-medieval and modern industrial colliery installation located in Wales and designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument (Cadw SAM MM192). The site contains beam pump and winding engine machinery that represents the technological infrastructure of coal extraction operations, reflecting the industrial development of Welsh mining during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These engineered structures are characteristic of the mechanical systems that powered deep pit drainage and the raising of coal and personnel from underground workings. The survival of such equipment at Glyn Pits provides material evidence of the engineering solutions employed in Welsh colliery operations during the period of industrial expansion.
Old Beam Pump & Winding Engine, Glyn Pits is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference MM192. View the official record →
Old Beam Pump & Winding Engine, Glyn Pits is a post-medieval and modern industrial colliery installation located in Wales and designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument (Cadw SAM MM192). It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference MM192.
Old Beam Pump & Winding Engine, Glyn Pits dates from the post medieval/modern period, and is classified as a colliery. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Old Beam Pump & Winding Engine, Glyn Pits is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Cadw — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Wales. The official designation reference is MM192.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Charcoal Blast Furnace at Abercarn (7 km), Cairns West of Craig y Dyffryn (7.2 km), Twm-Barlwm Mound and Bailey Castle (7.6 km).
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